Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

[Drunk Monk]

I got all excited when I discovered this stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), but both me and the Mrs. fell asleep watching this. I was asleep in the 1st half hour. I remember waking up and seeing a bird getting killed in a classroom. S doesn't remember that, so it may have been a dream. I went to bed first. This morning, S said she didn't get much farther before going to sleep herself, but she says she woke up to a dead body, so someone got killed at some point.

There may have been sword fights but I slept through it.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

There was an awesome sword fight!!! How could you have missed it. Yes, an owl did die in a classroom. Sorry, if you cherished that as some rich dreamscape.

If any movie can be described as deliberate and painstaking, it's this one. I know tried to read this book when I was younger but kept getting thrown by the terminology. Why do they keep going to the circus? But it is really slow. Dialogue heavy. You have to stay on your toes to know what is going on. It also helps if you understand the scandals in the British Secret Service upon which the story is based. But still. I think there was on really tense and clever moment when Benedict Cumberbatch has to break steal some files from the secret service. Other than that, you just follow along.

It's all very dark and dreary. The hardly have any score underneath the action. No big surprises except for who done it. Which might be the point of this whole exercise.

I think I'm going to go back now and re-read the books because I've finally learned how to read LeCarre. Or even better see the Alec Guinness version of this they made back in the 1980's

[Drunk Monk]

There was an awesome sword fight!!! How could you have missed it.

gosh darn it.